Our recent short film March 13th has been accepted into the Fantastic Planet Film Festival. We are super excited and kind of bummed that we couldn’t drop the cash to go. Thank you to the entire cast and crew for you wonder full contributions and support. The movie wouldn’t have been half as good without you. More news on other festivals and a trailer coming soon. I promise.

We are also in our last few days of post for our new short film, Monster Under the Bed. We are very excited about this one and can’t wait to share it with you all.

Also Phillip Hughes, Director at Uncanny, has been accepted to USC’s School of Cinematic Arts for Graduate studies in Directing. So it looks like we are moving to LA.

And finally if you want to hear us gab about the difficulties about the industry and about movies in general please check out our new podcast now on itunes. You can find us by typing in Uncanny Filmmaker. We promise you will laugh and cry… hopefully in a good way.

Happy Filmmaking!

Jenn

Exciting news for Uncanny Entertainment! Our newest feature, DRUNK is in post production and is getting very close to picture lock. In the coming weeks check out our film tab on this site to find all the latest news on this flick. Behind the scenes interviews and trailers to come shortly.

This past summer we produced our latest short March 13th starring one of our favorite Albuquerque actors, Ryan Jason Cook. We are very proud of the finished product and have currently sent out the short to 10 film festivals. We have already received two rejections, one from Sundance and the other from Slamdance but both of those festivals are extremely competitive. We had, I think, less than a one percent chance to make it into either of the two festivals. So we’re not feeling to bad about that one and wish a big congratulations to the films that made it in. The next one we should hear about should be South by Southwest. So wish us luck with that one.

Cheers!

Jenn

Uncanny teamed up with Very Exciting Productions to form the 48hour film fest team MINIMUS of the PIE. Our short film “Super Pissed!” has been selected to show in the “Best of” showing for Albuquerque on August 5th. There we will compete for Best of City! Come out and show your support!

Jigoku is 100% done and preparing to show in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Guild Theatre on Saturday, January 17th. It starts at 1:30pm and admission is $7.00. Come and join us!

www.guildcinema.com

Also, Here’s the NEW trailer! Jigoku Trailer B

Press Release: English , Japanese

Jigoku Webpage

Uncanny Entertainment and Third Star Films are proud to present the world premiere of the feature film Jigoku. Jigoku is an English-language film set in Okinawa, Japan and shot entirely on location in Okinawa.

TIME: July, 18th, 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm (Dorrs open at 7:10pm)
PLACE: Tiruru Women’s Center Main Hall
COST: 500 Yen per person. High School Students: 250 Yen

THE STORY: An international group of students on a leadership program in Southeast Asia decide to visit Okinawa, Japan for one last adventure. Soon after a sudden typhoon hits, they are separated from their hosts and lost in a city that appears to have been deserted. But are they really alone?
THE PRODUCTION: An eclectic group of actors and crew from America, England, New Zealand, Canada, and Okinawa came together to shoot the movie in the summer of 2006 under the helm of American writer/director Phillip Hughes. Post Production is based out of New York City, New York with effects work and musical score being completed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
THE PRODUCERS: Jigoku is Phillip Hughes’ feature-length directorial debut. He is an award-winning director, writer, and producer of several short films, documentaries, and PSA’s. He has received two service awards for his work teaching visual and performing arts to at-risk youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Ryan Denmark (Producer/Editor) is an award-winning director, writer, and editor of a number of films. Currently, he is part of the editorial staff that has worked on many of American film director, Spike Lee’s, movies such as The Inside Man and the upcoming Miracle at St. Anna’s.

Yellowville won 1^st place at the 1^st Annual Tromadance New Mexico!

We’re moving into the Foley phase, which is a pain when one doesn’t have a Foley Stage.

Taking much longer than expected, but we have most of the music finished by the amazing Mark Oates and it’s terrific!

We’re still waiting to clear some of the music for this project.